Texas Leads Nation With Highest Percentage Of Uninsured Residents

Yet again, it’s another bad statistic that can be blamed on the Republican majority in the Texas Legislature:

Texas again leads the nation with the highest percentage of uninsured residents, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released on Tuesday.

One out of every four residents, or 24.8 percent, was uninsured between 2006 and 2007, up slightly from 23.9 percent between 2004 and 2005.

You can read the full report from the Census Bureau here.

Of course, the Republicans in the Texas Legislature told us back in 2003 that the magical concept of tort reform would make insurance in Texas more affordable. Of course, that didn’t happen.

Those same GOP geniuses cut hundreds of thousands of children off of CHIP, which did nothing more than add to the crisis of uninsured Texans.

There are, of course, a number of GOP state Reps we could specifically thank for helping create this crisis, like Rep. John Davis (R-Clear Lake), Dwayne Bohac (R-Houston), and others who voted to gut CHIP in the first place.

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